Do you like TV shows on DVD?

[Deja Q]

Here's some bad scoop:


Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:12:00 -0400
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>Thank God I was able to get a ton of Voyage episodes from someone who
>had the channel when it ran. Hopefully, Starz Action is doing well with
>their 60's stuff.
>
>The market for classic shows grows smaller every year as our generation
>is probably the last one to really like that stuff. Remember, each
>generation grows up with reruns of the previous decade's programs. We
>had the 60's and 70's stuff. Today, kids are watching Home Improvement,
>The Nanny, Stargate, X-Files and so on. SFC's reruns consist of more
>recent fare as well. The only shows from the classic era that still
>remain popular are the genuine classics. But even so, there are fewer
>cries for Star Trek, The Honeymooners, Lucy, Dick Van Dyke than ever
>before. Even the great Mary Tyler Moore show did so poorly on DVD that
>further seasons will not be offered.
>
>Lost In Space, Irwin Allen's most popular program, didn't do so well on
>DVD, so the second season is being split up. It doesn't look like
>Columbia House is going to finish Land of the Giants or Time Tunnel (on
>VHS). That does not bode well for Voyage. 4 seasons, 110 episodes? Never
>gonna happen. Time Tunnel has a chance if only because it's a single
>season and it doesn't need to sell a trillion copies to get another set
>out.
>
>Fox refuses to release Batman. I hate them, they are insane. THAT show
>would be popular.
>
>What we do have out there, we're lucky to actually get. The V TV series
>was a major flop, but still WB cranked out a very barebones DVD set. I'm
>happy to have it, even if the sound is one channel mono. Buck Rogers
>comes out as one set soon, I Spy came out of nowhere and the entire
>series was completed(!). M*A*S*H seems to actually making it to the
>finish line (more than halfway there now), Galactica was a godsend and
>so forth. The Prisoner, Space:1999, UFO, The Outer Limits, Planet of the
>Apes. . .all of these shows were in my top 20 favorites. Voyage will
>probably never see the light of DVD, but maybe the Invaders will. Having
>Logan's Run would be cool as well, but some sort of revival would have
>to prompt that one. I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched would also be
>welcome.
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>So, there you have it. Our interests become less and less popular and
>we'll lose out on a lot. DVD came 15 years too late.